Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[0sacred]

taking your sweet time huh?

 

[Yosharian]

90h in, still in Act 1, going through the Mountain Pass. I like the game so far, don't get all the hate it gets on the Codex. Sure, the amount of women who try to boss you around is a little bit too high for my taste, but fortunately you can kill or punish most of them appropriately. Three things I appreciate the most about this game:
- all the reactivity & attention to detail, impressive
- hand-crafted encounter design, ZERO trash mob fights so far, almost unheard of. Owlcat or Sawyer could learn something here
- combat is actually fun

For some reason I feel that most of the 'good' parts are already over, but let's see how it goes.

You are 90H into the game and you're still in Act 1?

 

[Asymptotics]

90h in, still in Act 1, going through the Mountain Pass. I like the game so far, don't get all the hate it gets on the Codex. Sure, the amount of women who try to boss you around is a little bit too high for my taste, but fortunately you can kill or punish most of them appropriately. Three things I appreciate the most about this game:
- all the reactivity & attention to detail, impressive
- hand-crafted encounter design, ZERO trash mob fights so far, almost unheard of. Owlcat or Sawyer could learn something here
- combat is actually fun

For some reason I feel that most of the 'good' parts are already over, but let's see how it goes.

You are 90H into the game and you're still in Act 1?

Dude must've read every single piece of text and exhausted every single dialogue option in act 1. And then spent 50 hours afk.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

90h seems wild, but to be fair Act 1 alone seems bigger than entire games are sometimes.

 

[cruel]

Yeah, I definitely take my time with bigger games. I like to make a hard save every few hours and play with different ways the game allows you to progress. Stuff like:
- how far can you go if you make goblin camp hostile early
- is it doable to beat Ethel or Spider on L3
- steal or deliver Zhentarim package
- Duergar & Nere fight, how it plays out if you don't align with Brithvar and need to fight all at once
- betraying the Tieflings and siding with Minthara

I think it's actually more efficient in the long run than re-doing the whole game from scratch - assuming someone wants to actually see & experience those different outcomes.